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Japanese

Japanese

222 1.3
A person from Japan
  • noun
  • /ˌdʒæpəˈniːz/
translation icon : japonés
  • The Japanese often celebrate cherry blossom season with festivals and picnics.
  • Most Japanese
  • Europeans and Japanese
  • the Japanese during World War II

He was blind to it until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

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Examples

  • While the war rages on in Europe, the Japanese are on the march.

  • They call themselves Nadeshko from the Japanese Women's World Cup soccer team.

  • The Japanese are here in a big way.

  • "A man without children," a Japanese told me one day, "never knows the Ah of things."

    Academic text (1991)
  • Do you expect the Japanese would give us instruments?

  • How did your friendship with the Japanese begin?

  • You know, the Japanese made that motorcycle.

  • The Japanese have searched for us since the message.

  • And I want to convey that feeling to the Japanese viewers as well.

  • So she is a Japanese woman haiku master.

Synonyms

Nipponese
vsJapanese
  • Archaic
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A person from Japan

is the same in meaning but uses the more common modern form

Compounds

The language people speak in Japan

A small tree or shrub from Japan with delicate, deeply cut leaves that turn bright colors in autumn

A war between Russia and Japan from 1904 to 1905 that gave Japan control of Korea and northeast China

A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 over control of Korea ending in a Japanese victory

A tree with showy white or pink blossoms in spring

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A small green and brown insect that eats leaves and harms garden plants

A war between China and Japan over control of Korea that ended in a Japanese victory

A Japanese garden plant people grow for large bright multicolored flowers and pretty leaves

A group of over three thousand islands off the east coast of Asia that make up Japan

A bush from Japan with sweet-smelling yellow flowers

A shrub with wide evergreen leaves and hanging groups of white flowers grown in gardens

A grass that often grows in meadows, fields, and disturbed ground

A low grass used for lawns in warm climates

A tall evergreen tree from Japan and China with soft wood

A tree from Japan that loses its leaves and produces edible nuts

A small Asian plant with clover-like leaves used to cover soil and feed animals

Meat from crabs caught in Japan that is often sold in cans for food

A small reddish-brown deer with slightly forked antlers found in Japan

A small tree or shrub that loses its leaves, with prickly stems and big leaves often grown in gardens

A tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruit

A garden plant with large tropical leaves that survives cool winters

A small bush that loses its leaves and has bright red berries used for hedges

A rough grass people grow each year for its seeds and animal feed

A tree from Japan with soft, light yellow-brown wood

A climbing plant with bright orange-yellow berries and red skin around the seeds, grown for gardens

A Japanese pine with long needles in pairs often grown in gardens and for bonsai that resists salt and pollution

A god or spirit that people in Japan worship, for example in Shinto

A tree from East Asia with pretty pink or white blossoms in spring

A climbing plant with sweet-smelling white flowers that turn yellow and spread quickly

A tree with oval leaves and many pale pink flowers in early summer

A medium-sized tree from Japan grown in gardens for its pretty leaves and flowers

A medium-sized tree from Japan with broad leaves and fragrant pale flowers often planted in gardens

An evergreen tree with yellow, fuzzy fruit the size of an olive

A coarse grass grown each year for grain and to feed animals

A climbing plant with bright, often frilly, trumpet-shaped flowers

A large edible oyster from Japan often grown on farms

A climbing garden vine with showy leaves that have light and dark patches

A group of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia that make up Japan

A tall plant with large colorful flowers, usually purple or white, that grows near water

A climbing plant with leaves that have three parts and purple berries grown for decoration

A small East Asian tree that makes a poisonous sap used for lacquer

A grass used for lawns in Japan, China, and warm parts of the United States

A tropical plant with large green and white leaves that people grow indoors

A long, thin green onion with a mild taste used in cooking

A tree from Japan and China with strong, smooth wood

A tree with dark green divided leaves and clusters of creamy-white fragrant flowers

A small tree that grows large orange fruit people eat when ripe

A small garden flower with bright, jagged-edged pink petals

A large long white root vegetable from Japan often eaten raw or cooked

A pine tree from Japan and Korea that has a wide, uneven top and is grown for its looks

A strong bush with small flower groups used for hedges or grafting

A small tree or bush that loses its leaves and has fragrant white bell-shaped flowers

A small toy dog from Japan that has a silky black-and-white or red-and-white coat

A low evergreen plant used as ground cover with small white flowers

A wrestling hold where a person's arms cross in front of their neck to press the throat

A small Asian tree whose sap can cause a skin rash and is used to make lacquer

A pizza that has toppings and flavors from Japan like fish, seaweed, or mayonnaise

A showy plant from warm places with bright red leaf-like parts

An evergreen bush with small dark leaves and white flowers in loose groups often used for hedges

A small yellow fruit with a large stone and little flesh used for jam

A small evergreen tree that makes fuzzy yellow fruit

A small tree that makes large yellow or red fruit with a tart taste

A bush from China that loses its leaves, has thorns and red or white flowers

A militant group from Japan that carried out terrorist attacks in other countries

A pine tree from Japan and Korea with a wide, uneven crown often grown in gardens

A small tree from Japan with narrow leaves and groups of creamy white flowers grown for decoration

A tall evergreen tree from Japan with needle-like leaves in umbrella-like groups at twig tips

A small tree from East Asia that loses its leaves and has toxic sap used to make lacquer

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A climbing plant from East Asia with hanging groups of purple or pink flowers

A hardy evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy dark green leaves used in gardens

A person who can speak Japanese

A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 that ended in a clear Japanese victory

Surface Forms

Japanese singular
Japanese plural

Morphology

Japanese = Japan (transparent) = Japan + ese

Refers to a person from Japan via the standard nationality-forming suffix '-ese', making the relation clear.

Etymology

Japanese for a person comes from the country name Japan and the characters 日本, which mean 'origin of the sun' or 'land of the rising sun'. So a Japanese is someone who comes from that country.